Unix Programming - PHP = Perl Improved

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PHP = Perl Improved

Xah Lee

2005-12-09, 5:58 pm

recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i
read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it
is roughly based on Perl, of which i have mastery.

i felt a sensation of neatness, as if php =3D PERL Improved, for a
dedicated job of server-side scripting. Everything is so-built-in, and
the integrated functions for web application programing such as
CGI/Database is so convenient. What a PRACTICALITY! It has gotten a
long way, even now with a independent interpreter and engine (Zend) for
embedded computation of any other mark-up lang. And, its array/hash is
kinda linguistically cleaner, by combining the two into one. (after
all, array indexes are unique, so they are denotationally and
mathematically list of keyed pairs (hashes) too) As for nested
structure, it does away with Perl's ${x}->{'whatnot'}[$x]->[$y{'z'}]
insanity. And I'm most impressed by its extremely well-written
documentation.

But as i know the lang more, my feeling changed, yet =E2=80=9CPerl
Improved=E2=80=9D is still apt, with a new interpretation.

see
http://tnx.nl/php

If Unix, Apache, Perl, mysql etc shit can impact the world with
motherXXXXing evolutionary outrageous $free$ lies, why should we fault
Pretty Home Page?

Xah
xah@xahlee.org
=E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/

Roedy Green

2005-12-09, 5:58 pm

On 9 Dec 2005 11:15:16 -0800, "Xah Lee" <xah@xahlee.org> wrote, quoted
or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i
>read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it
>is roughly based on Perl, of which i have mastery.

that's very lovely, but off topic. Trolling for language flame wars
belong is comp.lang.java.advocacy.
--
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Thomas G. Marshall

2005-12-09, 8:50 pm

Roedy Green said something like:
> On 9 Dec 2005 11:15:16 -0800, "Xah Lee" <xah@xahlee.org> wrote, quoted
> or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>
> that's very lovely, but off topic. Trolling for language flame wars
> belong is comp.lang.java.advocacy.

I had plonked him back in May for this kind of crap. I suggest you do the
same.

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IchBin

2005-12-09, 8:50 pm

Thomas G. Marshall wrote:
> Roedy Green said something like:
>
> I had plonked him back in May for this kind of crap. I suggest you do the
> same.
>

It's better just to ignore him because he is only looking for the
attention and pseudo respect..

"You don't put a fire out with gasoline".

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Jürgen Exner

2005-12-09, 8:50 pm

Roedy Green wrote:
Of course I have Xah plonked but thanks to your
[vbcol=seagreen]
> On 9 Dec 2005 11:15:16 -0800, "Xah Lee" <xah@xahlee.org> wrote

I had the laugh of the week.
Thank you very much, you really made my day.

jue

Tin Gherdanarra

2005-12-14, 5:57 pm

Xah Lee wrote:
> recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i
> read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it
> is roughly based on Perl, of which i have mastery.

I suspect that you are a computer program posing as a human
usenet correspondent.

Please answer these questions:

If Alice goes to the supermarket to buy a pint of
milk, does her head go with her? Please elaborate.

What is the difference between my disher blowing
a fuse and your boss blowing a fuse? Please elaborate.

How can you turn off the light of a candle? Why does
it work?

Martin Christensen

2005-12-14, 8:50 pm

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Tin> I suspect that you are a computer program posing as a human
Tin> usenet correspondent.

Tin> Please answer these questions: [...]

Will you accept a solution in Perl? He has mastery of that language,
you know. You might have better luck if you phrase your questions in
Perl, too, since he doesn't seem to understand it when people tell him
to bugger off in plain English.

Say, there's a thought...

Martin
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John Bokma

2005-12-15, 2:51 am

Martin Christensen <martin.sand.christensen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Perl, too, since he doesn't seem to understand it when people tell him
> to bugger off in plain English.

"It" buggers off if everybody ignores it. "It" posts because it knows that
its actions pisses off so many people.

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Måns Rullgård

2005-12-15, 7:49 am

Martin Christensen <martin.sand.christensen@gmail.com> writes:

>
> Tin> Xah Lee wrote:
>
> Tin> I suspect that you are a computer program posing as a human
> Tin> usenet correspondent.
>
> Tin> Please answer these questions: [...]
>
> Will you accept a solution in Perl? He has mastery of that language,
> you know. You might have better luck if you phrase your questions in
> Perl, too, since he doesn't seem to understand it when people tell him
> to bugger off in plain English.

OK, lets try:

die;

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Måns Rullgård
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Xah Lee

2005-12-27, 6:06 pm

=C2=ABuse bytes; # Larry can take Unicode and shove it up his XXX
sideways.
# PERL 5.8.0 causes us to start getting incomprehensible
# errors about UTF-8 all over the place without this.=C2=BB

From: the source code of WebCollage (1998)
http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/
by Jamie W. Zawinski (~1971-)

The code is 3.4 thousand lines of PERL in one single file. Rather
incomprehensible.

Xah
xah@xahlee.org
=E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/